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| | | Bridging the sustainability gap |
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|  | Sustainable development - we've all heard the phrase bubbling from the mouths of politicians, concerned groups, enlightened individuals and any commentator who can pour the word out like the foaming water of a babbling brook. And like the brook, its message twists and turns over and around obstacles until it merges with a stream, which in turn melds into the river, which eventually dissolves into the sea.
To most of us the theory of sustainability is just that, a theory. We all applaud the goals but have little understanding of the practice. Have a look around your home and office and ask yourself "how sustainable am I?" .....Read more>>> |
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| | Sustainability at your fingertips… | |
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| With half of the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global climate change directly linked to the built environment, the industry has come under increasing pressure to improve the environmental performance and costeffectiveness of their processes and buildings. Over the past few decades the sustainability movement has developed into an uprising which is mutually driven by society, consumers and statutory legislation.
The Welsh Assembly is one of just three bodies in the whole spectrum of world government with a legal duty to promote sustainable development. Wales based Constructive Earth is at the very heart of this movement, ....Read more>>> |  |
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| | | Reaching the End of the Sustainable Rainbow |
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|  | What does sustainability mean to you? Most of us think of alternative energy, natural materials, waste and pollution. Add some social aspects and mix in an ecological footprint or two and already the equation is becoming more complex. If you were to build with all this in mind, would you still be deemed to be on the right side of the argument?
Consider a scenario where a new shopping mall is proposed.
Let's suppose ..... Read more>>> |
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